The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-28
BILL NYE BADLY PERPLExED
An 4 ngry Bowery Museum Man Makes an
appointment IneOnvenient to Keep.
New York Evening World.

An Angry Bowery Museum Man Makes an
appointment Ineonvenient to Keep.
New York Evening World.
This Is card. l desire to call the atten-
ton of the authorities and the public,
throug h your valuable paper, to the gross
wrong now being done to our people
through the Misrepresentation Of the man
who runs the museum at Chatham Square.
/ say this because it is where | would like
to go every afternoon for an hour or two,
provided the proprietor would keep faith
with the consumer, as 1t were.
For six months this popular museum
has had spasms of advertising a beauty
contest, and has shown on the outside a
large picture of five or six handsome
women, wearing good clothes and brilliant
compilations. l have gone In because am
great admirer Of the good, the true and
the beautiful, even In q dime museum. In
each instance 1 have found a man who
took the money, supported by very un-
healthy colored man, who has unwhole-
some white spots on him like calico horse
in circus.
speak of this, Mr.. Editor more in sor-
row than in in anger, but | hate to be
fooled out OF money that earn these hard
times. when living is high, especially in a
fat, and ready money don't have the circu-
lation that it claims. Can you not, through
the medium OF your paper, arouse the au-
thorities and compel this popular museum
to produce the features it advertises. OF
course / like the Eden husee very much
and dearly love to go down into the
chamber of horrors and stand perfectly
still and be mistaken for one myself oc-
cssionally, but think for those who really
enjoy narrowing sights beauty contest at
dime museum seems to be more search
ing than anything else know of. Hence
i ask, as sIspatron of the dime museum,
that these popular places shall not be per-
mitted to run down and become disgrace
to our booming young town.
The Chatham Square Museum now
claims TO have man who is gradually
turning to stone. presume he is gradu-
ally turning 20 stone the proprietor. He
ought to. | spoke to the genial manager,
who hes been in the habit of taking my
money at various times during the past
yesr when have been there TO see the
beauty contest, which generally turned
out to be fat woman chewing gu 70, or q
balloon with the blind staggers, and
said TO him the other day that as l had
been there a good deal and always found
things Just IS they were misrepresented,
and therefore felt acquainted with him.
would like to know Just when
the beauty contest would take place,
end If he would send word to me
when the carnage reached its maximum
height would drop over and witness it.
hate to give his exact words. but in case
like this it does not do to be timid. I use
his language as took it down at the time
Swiftly leaning mp against the wall he told
me twice in rapid succession to go to hell
Ought / to write him, stating that can
not attend, or do you think the invitation
| purely formal and that he will not wait fol-
me when he gets ready to go?
know that editors are overrun with all
kinds of questions like the above, bat
wish you could find time to answer thi:
and oolige an old subscriber.
What do you think Of my penmanship'
BILL NYE.